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MegaChange

Economic Disruption, Political Upheaval, and Social Strife in the 21st C
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Domestically, we see megachange at work in the new attitudes and policies toward same-sex marriage, health care, smoking, and the widespread legalization of marijuana use. Globally, we have seen the extraordinary rise and then collapse of the Arab Spring, the emergence of religious zealotry, the growing influence of nonstate actors, the spread of ISIS-fomented terrorism, the rise of new economic and political powers in Asia, and the fracturing of once-stable international alliances.
Darrell M. West is vice president of governance studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of twenty-one books on contemporary politics, including, most recently, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust (Brookings, 2014).
Western liberal contempt for nationalism has been practically calamitous. As Darrell M. West documents in Megachange, faced with the rise of extremist religious and ideological identities, it should be evident that the pertinent social menace is fragmentation into op positional identities sustained by the echo chambers of social media."- Times Literary Supplement
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